Central argument: Francis Bacon believes that religion is a necessity which provides us with moral and leading us to the correct path.
There are many different beliefs in the world and all of them are similar and different from each other. The teachings of many religions are about how to live in everyday life; some religions set limit to what the believer is allowed to do, giving reasons that require only believing. Those questionable rules make the religion unbelievable in which making the believer seems as a spiritually weak person. The religion itself should be able to answer all the doubts about the unbelievable rule, the origin of the religion otherwise the religion is misleading people or limiting the rights of freedom of the people and violates the idea of individualism. Francis Bacon explained that religion is a necessity which provides us with moral and leading us to the correct path in Of Atheism; however, believing in religion should not be something necessary as people have the rights to think for themselves; the rule of religion maybe a necessity which believers must follow and therefore misleading the believers.
In the history of mankind, religion is one of the biggest sparks of war because people have different beliefs in which are questionable and non-provable so therefore causing conflicts between nations. The stronger side will put down the other side and use its authority to mislead people, blind people so it stays in power. People are not allowed to question or they are given consequences. It is better for one to believe in himself or herself because therefore there is no limit or consequences or misleading information from the authority.
The religions may violate the rights of people to do something as their rules do not let their believers to eat certain kinds of food, have sexual intercourse before marriage, etc. The rules may benefit the believers in some ways, but people have their own brains to think if what they are doing is right or not according to the laws of the countries in which have clear explanations and mostly reasonable; the rules maybe something that people may look up at and see what fits in their life-style, but they should not be necessity as that would violates human rights.
Believing in a religion does not necessary help out someone living in everyday life, it may, but some religions violate the rights of the believer and mislead the believer to believe in something unrealistic. People have full rights to think for themselves as long as it does not violate the rights of anyone else.
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